Wasif al-Turki (Arabic: وصيف التركي) (died October 29, 867) was a Turkic general in the service of the Abbasid Caliphate. He played a central role in the...
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tombs of Hassan and Hussayn. Al-Muntasir engaged in military actions against the Byzantines, led by his general Wasif al-Turki, but his sudden death in June...
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he managed to remove and kill the leading Turkish generals, Wasif al-Turki and Bugha al-Saghir, but the decline of the Tahirids in Baghdad deprived him...
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Having escorted al-Hadi to Samarra, Yahya conveyed to the caliph the recommendations of al-Tahiri and the Turkish commander Wasif al-Turki, which apparently...
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or 864, when he was dismissed and exiled to Basra after the general Wasif al-Turki accused him of engaging with the shakiriyya troops in a suspicious manner...
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Itakh (redirect from Itakh al-Khazari)
Turkish general Wasif al-Turki, who assembled to determine his successor. Ibn al-Zayyat initially proposed al-Wathiq's son Muhammad (the future al-Muhtadi),...
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he, along with two other Turkic leaders, Bugha al-Sharabi (known as Bugha al-Saghir) and Wasif al-Turki, left Samarra on a boat to East Baghdad. The Turks...
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Abdallah, Abbasid governor Qarin I, ruler (spahbed) of the Bavand Dynasty Wasif al-Turki, Abbasid general Wulfsige, bishop of Lichfield Finlay, G. (1856). History...
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officials, the vizier Muhammad ibn al-Zayyat, the chief qādī, Ahmad ibn Abi Duwad, the Turkish generals Itakh and Wasif al-Turki, and a few others, assembled...
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caliph al-Mu'tazz in 869, but he was later defeated by the general Musa ibn Bugha and killed in the following year. Salih was the son of Wasif al-Turki, a...
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to al-Jahiz, al-Farghani, Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Arib al-Ma'muniyya, and Wasif al-Turki. Following the events of Assassin's Creed Valhalla: The Last Chapter...
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Anarchy at Samarra (section Al-Muntasir (861–862))
former power. As a result, by 869 the Turkic leaders Salih ibn Wasif (the son of Wasif al-Turki) and Ba'ikbak were again in the ascendant and secured the removal...
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Mirza (1875–1959), Bengali monarch Wasif Ali Wasif (1929–1993), Pakistani teacher, writer, poet and Sufi Wasif al-Turki (died 867), Turkic Abbasid general...
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commanders—alongside Ashinas, Wasif al-Turki, and al-Afshin—of the Turkish guard established by Caliph al-Mu'tasim (r. 833–842). Al-Fath was born around 817/8...
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caliph's administration. According to al-Tabari, he was able to get rid of a rival, the general Wasif al-Turki, by convincing the caliph to send him on...
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Wasif al-Turki against the Byzantine frontier region, that resulted in the capture of Faruriyyah. On 9 June 862, two days after the accession of al-Musta'in...
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Bajkam (redirect from Abū al-Husayn Bajkam al-Mākānī)
Tulun Al-Mustakfi Ashinas Azjur al-Turki Bugha al-Kabir Bugha al-Sharabi Itakh Muhammad ibn Ra'iq Muzahim ibn Khaqan Salih ibn Wasif Tuzun (amir al-umara)...
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since 861. In late 866 al-Mu'tazz attempted to remove Wasif al-Turki and Bugha al-Sharabi, two generals who had sided with al-Musta'in during the civil...
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mawlas. Utamish also excluded the influential officers Bugha al-Sharabi and Wasif al-Turki from power, and the two retaliated by plotting his downfall...
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Ushrusaniyya (section The Ushrusaniyya under al-Afshin)
Ushrusaniyya. Al-Ya'qubi notes that after al-Afshin's death, the Turkish commander Wasif al-Turki and his followers took up residence in al-Matira during...
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the deaths of the wazir Utamish and the Turkish commanders Wasif al-Turki and Salih ibn Wasif. Like the other regiments in Samarra, their main concern during...
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(spahbed) of the Bavand Dynasty Wasif al-Turki, Abbasid general Wulfsige, bishop of Lichfield 868 Ali al-Hadi, tenth Shia Imam Al-Jahiz, Afro-Muslim scholar...
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Planned during the short caliphate of al-Muntasir (r. 861–862), it was commanded by the Turkish general Wasif, and was intended to strike against Byzantine...
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Muflih al-Turki (Arabic: مفلح التركي, died April 2, 872) was a Turkish military officer of the Abbasid Caliphate in the mid-9th century. He played a prominent...
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Abbasid civil war (865–866) (section Al-Musta'in)
Samarra. Faced with this hostile situation, al-Musta'in and two of the senior Turkish officers, Wasif and Bugha al-Sharabi, decided to leave Samarra for Baghdad...
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(877–904) Ali ibn Amajur al-Turki (878) Ahmad ibn Wasif Tughj ibn Juff (896–905) Abbasid restoration: Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh (905–906) al-Rashidi (928–931) Muhammad...
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the day of the incident, Saudi Ministry of Interior spokesman Mansour Al-Turki attempted to address most issues regarding the incident. He said in September...
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Sultan Walad (redirect from Baha al-Din Walad)
تازی Translation: Let go of the languages of Greek (Rumi) and Turkish (Turki) Because you lack knowledge in these two, Thus speak in Persian and Arabic...
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Ja'far al-Mansur was the first Abbasid caliph to integrate the Turks as intimate associates and officials, placing his confidence in Hamad al-Turki, who...
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reign of al-Muntasir (r. 861–862), when he was appointed as a commander of Wasif's campaign against the Byzantines. Under al-Muntasir's successor al-Musta'in...
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